Extended Entitlement (30 Hours Funded Childcare)

Some working parents of 3 and 4 year olds are entitled to up to 1,140 hours of funded early years provision across the year (30 hours per week term time). The Childcare Act 2016 gives more information about this.

The Early Years and Childcare Service have designed a template questionnaire for you to use to survey parents on their eligibility to the extended entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds and their plans to use it. This is important to help you to plan your services for September 2017.

Step Two: Offering the extended entitlement yourself

When planning how to incorporate the extended entitlement in your business, please consider what you can offer parents. If you can provide the additional hours yourself, the following examples could be used:

We anticipate an increase in demand for all-year provision and as such, the examples above are not a definitive list; you may have other models that better suit your business needs.

Step Three: Working in partnership with other providers

If you are unable to offer some or all of the extended entitlement, you should investigate working in partnership with other providers to do so. This can be called a blended offer. The 30 hours mixed model partnership toolkit provides more information about this. The toolkit also gives examples of several blended models between various childcare providers.

Step Four: Contact Devon County Council

The Early Years and Childcare Service will be contacting all funded providers later in the summer term to request completion of a new provider agreement on which you can indicate if your provision will be offering the extended entitlement.